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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The plot, as Aristotle explains, should be unified in such a way that each part should be what?
(a) Necessary to the whole.
(b) Trivial.
(c) Necessary to other parts, but not to the whole.
(d) Equivalent.

2. How does Aristotle define "Recognition"?
(a) A deep knowing.
(b) A change from ignorance to knowledge.
(c) An understanding of something.
(d) A sudden realization that one is familiar with something.

3. In poetry, Aristotle says that in the "Odyssey" recognition comes about how??
(a) Penelope recognizes his walk.
(b) Odyssues's nurse recognizes him from his scar.
(c) None of the answers is correct..
(d) The suitors recognize him by his face.

4. When the poet takes the appropriate steps in developing plot, Aristotle explains that the poet is much more likely to do what?
(a) Choose great characters.
(b) Have a strong ending.
(c) Have a strong beginning.
(d) Have more consistencies in the plot.

5. What reason does Aristotle give for Homer excluding many things that Odysseus does on his voyage home in the "Odyssey"?
(a) Aristotle explains that Homer prefers to keep the reader guessing.
(b) Nothing is excluded.
(c) Aristotle says that Homer excludes things because they do not relate well to the overall plot that is being constructed.
(d) Aristotle says that Odysseus does some embarrassing things that are better left unsaid.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Aristotle differentiate poetry from prose?

2. When one character realizes that another character has fewer morals than he once thought, what does Aristotle say is happening?

3. Aristotle explains that the medium specific to poetry is one that uses what?

4. In poetry, what is the term that Aristotle gives for an action that aims to accomplish a certain goal, but actually accomplishes the opposite?

5. Aristotle says that storytelling with episodic plots is to be favored by whom?

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